The simple fact is that no working terrier has ever been created by the Kennel Club, but every working terrier breed that has been drawn in, has been destroyed there, and the Fox Terrier is example One.
The Reverend John Russell noted the negative impact of dog shows on working terriers -- he judged only one show (when he was a very old man), and he swore he would never do it again!
After wrecking the Fox Terrier by expanding the chest, shortening the back, and elongating the head, the Kennel Club circled back to try to draw in the Jack Russell Terrier, which they now call the “Parson Russell Terrier”.
And guess what? The ruination is already happening all over again as the dogs get too big.
No surprise here, of course; the “Parson Russell” “standard” was written by someone who had no connection to Russell and who dug badger, not fox.
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